Before the suit, PayPal sought to serve as a payment option for mobile app purchases on Google’s Android market. Bedier was then the senior executive leading negotiations between PayPal and Google to set up the business relationship. However, during the final steps of the negotiations, Bedier interviewed for a position at Google without notice to PayPal. He terminated employment at PayPal and began work for Google’s Mobile Payments division on January 24, 2011. PayPal alleges that Bedier left the company with knowledge of its trade secrets for retail POS technology and services and mobile payment. Additionally, it claims that Bedier transferred and possessed upon departure PayPal’s and eBay’s confidential information on his personal computers.